“As patterns seem to form. I feel it cold and warm.”
Digital.
Joy Division.
“The parable of Temperature.
… We take take for granted that temperature is an objective property of the world: it’s “out there,” independent of us. When we’re kids in school, we learn that water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees Celsius. We naturally translate from daily temperature reports in Fahrenheit or Celsius to expectations of how warm or cold we’ll feel and what clothes we’ll need to wear to go outside. But to distill our now familiar idea of temperature from our bodily sensations of hot or cold took a huge difficult scientific effort lasting several centuries. Today we view temperature as an objective property of the world, but we’ve forgotten how the concept of temperature as a physical quantity – derives from the direct experience of the world through our bodies. We have lost sight of the lived experience that underpins the scientific concept and think that the concept refers to something more fundamental than our bodily sensations. This way of thinking is an instance of the Blind Spot.”
Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson. The Blind Spot – Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience. 2024